Maria: Calling any state totalitarian is misleading: it implies total state control of all aspects of life. The real...
anniezJune 24, 2023
Answer C: "Therefore"
Hi, I made a mistake in choosing C as I was focused on the word "therefore" in the sentence "therefore, its degree of control is partial".
Doesn't the term "therefore" typically lead to the main conclusion?
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Hi, the word therefore does introduce a conclusion, but it doesn't have to introduce the overall conclusion. We could have an argument that goes X, therefore Y, which in turn proves Z. In this argument the Z is the conclusion even though the word therefore applied to Y. This is more or less what we have here, the therefore introduces an intermediate conclusion. The idea that total control is inefficient supports the idea that control is thus partial, which in turn supports the idea that no real state is totalitarian.
